Tuaq & Torq growling at the hedgehog squishable stuffed animal Erik gave Guy for Valentines Day 2010
Valentine’s Hedgehog, Wanda
We like Wanda Sykes from The New Adventures of Old Christine, loved I’ma Be Me on HBO, and recently started enjoying her new TV show, The Wanda Sykes Show.
I was watching an episode and paused it when Erik came in and gave me a squishable stuffed hedgehog for Valentine’s Day. Then we both looked at the TV and laughed realizing the hedgehog looked like Wanda. So naturally we named the hedgehog “Wanda” and now she sits in the living room watching TV with us. Tuaq & Torq growled at Wanda at first but she growled back and now they’re friends. 
Conan O’Brien mouse car and Robin Williams
We don’t watch Conan O’Brien except for his last couple days on The Tonight Show. A few jokes were funny but overall still don’t like his humour nor his attitude about NBC needing to move his schedule. In the real world, you do what your employer tells you to do without whining about it to the public. Anyhow, took these couple shots…
Jay Leno Show at 10
I like watching this the next mornings (love our Rogers HD PVR!) during breakfast before walking the dogs. I usually forward through most the guest interviews and singing stuff but like the monologue, headlines, and other comedy features. And Jay’s new 10 o’clock stage is awesome.
Now NBC’s affiliates were upset so NBC is apparently moving him back to 11:30 pm which understandably pissed-off Conan O’Brien who had taken over the The Tonight Show at that time. None of this affects me since I watch it the next morning anyway.
According to NBC, Leno’s show is cheaper to produce, more profitable, and helps with the fact more people (like us!) are paying subscribers who don’t watch the local networks much at all anymore and fast forward past their ads and local garbage anyway. In my opinion, both the Canadian local stations and US local affiliates need to wake-up to the fact they are based on a rapidly extincting (or already extinct) business model and need to change over to a subscriber-based model. Of course, the cable & satellite providers already know this and are already trying to replace them which brings us to the antiquated broadcast regulations protecting the old failed system. Come-on CRTC here in Canada and FCC in US, stop protecting the unwanted dinosaurs!!! Once changed, I believe all programming will be greatly improved because only what people are willing to buy are what will remain. And our populations are more than large enough to continue supporting local interest groups too; hell, they might even become profitable if they would stop shooting themselves in the foot… what a concept!
